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1 Every firearm is always loaded

2 Never point a firearm at something unless you intend to kill it

You have a good dad then; I know someone that was getting a photo of his friend pointing a gun at him and he was distracted and fired it, turns out it was loaded and my friend got an arm full of lead. if that had been pointing at his head or body he would have been dead not just in the emergency room.
TL;DR Don't fuck with guns!!

Was at a friend's house before we went to the range. My Glock was in its case and empty. He picks up a pistol his dad was letting him borrow that he wanted to shoot. I asked him a question about the safety and if the gun would fire without a magazine. For example, my Glock will fire with a chambered round, but no magazine. My Sig will not. His response was "oh no it won't. It's designed not to." he then proceeded to pull the trigger 4 times. Now I have not handled the weapon at all at this point, but I know for a fact that both magazines are sitting on the table in front of me. On the fourth trigger pull, fucker went off. Luckily he was aiming it at the ceiling when it did. Me ears were ringing for a good 20 minutes after that shit. Check your weapons before you handle them.

Those are great rules, and need to be taught to children. However, when i'm cleaning my guns, and i've made damned sure that they're unloaded, i understand that they won't bite me.

There's a difference between making a rule absolute for rhetorical effect, and actually believing that every firearm is always loaded.

Which is why i was also taught to clear any weapon i handled, even if i saw the person before me do it. And even if i "know" it's unloaded, to realize that those around me have no reason to trust me, so i behave as if it is loaded with others around (such as unpacking/packing my gear at the range).

Actually, Rule #1 is treat every weapon as if it were loaded. Rule #2 is never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot. Rule #3 is keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you're ready to fire.

I had 9 groomsmen because my wife had 9 bridesmaids. Heaven forbid we have a mismatching number of groomsmen and bridesmaids... I wouldn't have had that many if it didn't matter, and I'm sure that was part of it for OP. We had a smallish wedding anyways, and it was my wife's choice to do it that way and still have that many bridesmaids/groomsmen. Trust me though, if I had to have chosen one more, I would've had an even harder time finding someone I actually wanted to be a groomsmen... I had already picked my brothers as some of the groomsmen...

Blame the bride. In my experience, the number of groomsmen is always driven by the number of bridesmaids. You have to run around befriending random guys on the street and dragooning them into rented tuxedos because the bride has gone totally hormone-crazy and everyone she's ever met since she was six, right down to that girl who helped her make her popsicle stick Abe Lincoln's cabin in third grade and who she hasn't seen, spoken to, or thought of since, is now honest to god her best friend ever and has to be in the wedding party.

I'm going to be in a wedding this July as the maid of honor, with 5 other girls... I'm really the only one the bride even cares about being there. The other girls are just the groomsmens wives and the grooms sister. He has a lot of "college buddies" and she isn't really the kind of girl to have a gaggle of female friends, much like myself, so there are some exceptions to the rule.

I wouldn't always blame the bride. My father had THIRTEEN groomsmen and my mother hardly had any friends to begin with. She had to ask people she was barely even acquainted with to be her bridesmaids. My father planned the whole wedding himself and my mother basically got no say in it whatsoever. My father is also a huge dick.

Related photographer comment! My cousin is quite young, and has decided to shoot photos for a living. Last family gathering, the grandma goes up to him and say "so, are you working for real or taking photos only so far?" ಠ_ಠ

Photography (that you can make a living from) has been rapidly shrinking as an industry for at least 10 years. Everyone is a photographer now. Stock photography is cheaper and easier to use in many instances than hiring a photographer for editorial and advertising. (High end advertising still pays a fuckload, but you cannot just walk into doing that. It is mostly locked down by industry veterans and famous photographers.) Event photography has become pretty much redundant. 15 years ago, you could charge 80-100 bucks per hour to show up somewhere with a camera and shoot an event. Now, companies just have an intern go around with a nikon coolpix and then put it up on facebook.

Hope your cousin wants to shoot weddings, because that is one of the last ways to get paid a decent amount for a day's work shooting pictures.

I agree. I just want to say that I think it's wrong by grandma to phrase it like that, though. It's just so condescending to hint that the person doesn't "work for real", when you often need to put in more time than an average 9-to-5.

In the case that he just does not get enough bookings and doesn't work and just calls himself a professional photographer because he feels like it, well then grandma is correct and I am wrong, and it's time for the photographer to maybe pick up an extra job or something.

Clear the chambers, empty and remove clips/mags, quadruple check and then check again...Then take the pics. I'm all about safety and this would never fly with some people but if they were extra cautious I'd give this a pass.

EDIT: I just started typing things to get the point across that the gun has been properly cleared. I wasn't putting them in order or worried about using proper terminology. If you know/own/use guns you know what you're supposed to do - if you don't, don't reference a reddit comment.

You got that backwards, drop the mag then clear the chamber (Unless you lock it open and drop the mag but if you slip you're still stripping a new round off the magazine, always easier to drop the mag then clear the chamber).

Also regardless rule 1: ALWAYS treat guns as if they're loaded. I don't give a shit if I've personally cleared a gun and checked it 100 times, there's no way in hell I'd allow it to be pointed at me.

I've grown up with guns, shoot them on a semi-regular basis, and was in the military. Respecting the gun is one thing, you respect the power the gun has, but you also have to live in this place called reality, where bullets do not magically appear in chambers.

Don't load the gun and you can't kill anyone, and it makes for awesome photos. Respect the weapon, don't fear it.

I get it man. I know a few gun enthusiast but none as smug as some of the people in here. They damn near wet their pants at the opportunity to wag their finger at you. I'm 100% for gun safety and considering the risk I'm sure you guys were extremely careful. Great pic

That is THE textbook example of why people have a negligent discharge and kill someone. You have no business around firearms.
This is what happens when you clear a gun like that. The reason why I take this kind of ignorant post seriously is because when I go to a range, professionals like yourself put everyone around them at risk.

Why does nobody give a shit that OP wanted this picture? If he wants to take it upon himself to make sure he is safe before having his best friends point a bunch of guns at him, that's his business. And it's an awesome picture.

I knew I'd come in here and have to see about 25 different people going on about gun safety and how this guy is a complete fucking idiot. Yeah, we get it, you're not supposed to point guns at people and you keep your fingers off the trigger and you keep the guns unloaded and blah blah blah. Yes. Thank you. I'm sure this man knows that if he uses guns and is over the age of 12.

The thing is, sometimes we have to take risks in life and put ourselves in danger for the sake of doing awesome things. This is one of those times, because this is a pretty cool picture, and assuming all these guns were checked beforehand and unloaded the chances of anything bad accidentally happening are pretty much 0 (It actually looks like the picture of the friends was taken first and he was shopped in after anyway). I'm sure everyone in this photo knows its his own damn fault if his head gets blown off.

I really don't know how to feel about this. One one hand that is unbelievably kick ass, but on the other hand my inner gun-owner is nagging at me on how you should never aim a firearm, loaded or unloaded, at another person.

Americans find the thought of not having free access to weapons to be inconceivable (rough generalization).

Europeans find the thought of having free access to weapons to be inconceivable. (rough generalization).

It's amazing to me how a mindset can be so different. Slightly off topic I know, but wanted to point out that little detail. Our views are just so fundamentally different that we can't quite grasp the other side. At least, that's the conclusion I've reached after discussing "US vs Europe" topics way too much :)

I know you admitted you made a generalisation, but I still dislike the idea that there's such a thing as "our views", or that "we" can't grasp "the other side". I'm English (technically a part of the Euro cluster) and I absolutely believe people should have free access to weapons in a rational and peaceful society, in fact to bar people from possessing firearms is an act of aggressive violence. I'm not questioning your generalisation so much as I am voicing my displeasure at being generalised into such an irrational position.

I'm guessing that your hobby is acting, as evidenced by the fact that you know how to pose best to get your point across (here: humor), your access to lots of prop guns (?), and your skilled camera man.

Well I can definitely say that you're friends with the guys in Attack! Attack!, which is pretty cool. This reminds me of their video for Smokahontas. Caleb is top left, Johnny is below him, Whiting is far bottom left, John's right behind the groom and Wetzel is second on the right.